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Taylor Swift recommended a poem for Florence Welch’s book club in honor of 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT' (Via betweentwobooks)

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New Florence interview with Vogue just dropped

#florence and the machine #florence + the machine #fatm #f+tm #florence welch #my post

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Florida waiting for tourism to skyrocket

#HELP AKSHSKSHS #taylor swift #the tortured poets department #florida!!! #meme #rb

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FLORENCE + THE MACHINE ARE DOING A SYMPHONY VERSION OF LUNGS AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN SEPTEMBER LIKE THEY DID FOR CEREMONIALS IN 2012 AAAAAAAAAAA

#florence and the machine #florence + the machine #fatm #f+tm #florence welch #lungs #lungs the album #lungs album #my post

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#high as hope #big god #video #rb

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idea. Florence welch should play female Crowley I think shed be glorious

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Patti Smith & Taylor Swift & Florence Welch

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And if Taylor brings Florence + the Machine out to sing Florida!!! at the Eras Tour when it starts up again then what

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but this fucking time!!!!

#lmao i love when she swears on the live album #dance fever live at madison square garden #june #rb

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If I had a nickel for every time a song called Cassandra was one of my favorite songs on an album with brilliant storytelling and impeccable lyricism, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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So - Taylor Swift & Florence Welch both have songs called Cassandra. Why is that significant?

✨First- Who is Cassandra, Anyway? EW.

Cassandra is a figure in Greek mythology, blessed with the ability to see the future & cursed to never be believed. She sees the fall of Troy before it happens but can't do anything to stop it (there's a lotttt more Cassandra lore, keeping it basic here).

In the 1940s, a French philosopher dubbed "Cassandra complex" to encompass situations where someone reacts validly & with reason and raises the alarm but is not believed until it's too late.

✨Second- What is Taylor's interpretation of Cassandra?

Taylor's Cassandra remains faithful and places herself into the myth, issuing warnings about untrustworthy individuals that went ignored by her peers, the media, and the general public - invoking her Reputation era. ("You can mark my words that I said it first in a morning warning no one heard"). She's telling the story of her Reputation era through Cassandra, who was famously ignored after giving warnings about the fall of Troy.

She references snakes in her cell, a double meaning:🐍 on her actual cell phone (hehe) & a reference to the snakes mentioned in the myth of Cassandra, where snakes whispered the future to her. She goes on to say, "so they killed Cassandra first because she feared the worst and tried to tell the town"..."do you believe me now?" asking if, after the witch hunts & death of her reputation, we believe her now that the truth has actually come out. She makes a point to say, "when the truth comes out, it's quiet. it's so quiet."

A line that I personally feel is very important within Taylor's story is "they say 'what doesn't kill you makes you aware' - what happens if it becomes who you are?" Changing the famous "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" to "makes you aware" is a very important distinction for her to make. Ever since she was made aware of the shady characters that exist within her world, she has been vigilant in order to protect herself, her art, and her integrity. Next, she worries that the struggles she went through will define her in the same way that Cassandra's struggles continue to define her today, which we've seen carry over thematically in albums she's released since Reputation.

In her outro, she reiterates: "When the first stone's thrown, they're screaming. In the streets, there's a raging riot. When it's BURN THE BITCH, they're shrieking... when the truth comes out, it's quiet. It's so quiet." Taylor Swift has not forgotten the volume of the voices that condemned her, or their apparent silence (lack of apology?) in the aftermath.

✨Third- What is Florence's interpretation of Cassandra?

Florence's Cassandra is a told a bit more in abstract, and comes after Florence believed that the music she was writing, as well as her own personal wishes pre-pandemic, seemed to call upon her the isolation that came during the pandemic.

She starts with, "I used to see the future and now I see nothing"..."Crying like Cassandra, I used to tell the future but they cut out my tongue" and tells a story of a Cassandra who had the gift of foresight, was cursed, and then was ultimately stripped of it & left to cope in the aftermath. Combined with the uncertainty & loneliness felt during the early months of quarantine, Florence's Cassandra is blinded, condemned, and left to question how she fits into the world crumbling around her.

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i've still got an hour left in the day

#I'm a day late but happy birthday to the song that made me start this blog 💙💙💙 #insane that a year has passed it feels like an eternity #mermaids #rb

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fuck me up florida!!!

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Approaching Storm: Beach Near Newport – Martin Johnson Heade (detail) // Stormy Sea with Capsizing Ship – Robert Kummer // Stormy Sea with Lighthouse – Carl Blechen // Stormy Sea – Ivan Ayvazovsky // Landscape – Florence + the Machine

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